What should I do to get my Xperia play as close to vanilla as possible?
Any launcher that is like vanilla? stuff like that.
thanks
RacecarBMW said:
What should I do to get my Xperia play as close to vanilla as possible?
Any launcher that is like vanilla? stuff like that.
thanks
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launcher pro is the best launcher ever, it can be exactly like vanillia android but is 1000x more customizable and powerful and free
.... did I mention it is free?
I guess I did
Though it's free there's a paid version (launcher pro plus) with more features. The most useful feature in the paid version must be resizing widgets ;-)
Regards Dousan...
I am also looking for this, I have tried Launcher Pro/ADW and lots of Gingerbread themes etc but I am always left with SE icons and not stock.
Anyone know the best way to get stock icons? (rooted and bootloader unlocked)
Laird_Attwood said:
I am also looking for this, I have tried Launcher Pro/ADW and lots of Gingerbread themes etc but I am always left with SE icons and not stock.
Anyone know the best way to get stock icons? (rooted and bootloader unlocked)
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ohhhh.... yea nothing is going to help you with that except custom roms or some serious surgury of the apk's in /system and you don't want to mess with that I promise you.
there are some apps to change the icon link on your home screen, but in the app drawer it will still show the old icon. Not sure anyone is going to help you with that less a custom rom be involved
johnsongrantr said:
ohhhh.... yea nothing is going to help you with that except custom roms or some serious surgury of the apk's in /system and you don't want to mess with that I promise you.
there are some apps to change the icon link on your home screen, but in the app drawer it will still show the old icon. Not sure anyone is going to help you with that less a custom rom be involved
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Thanks for reply, hopefully it wont be to long till there is a few custom roms
Try the Zlauncher its the most light weight pure vanilla experience
yohandesilva1 said:
Try the Zlauncher its the most light weight pure vanilla experience
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ok thanks for that it seems pretty cool.
Related
I created this thread so not to clutter the ROM thread with verbiage of add-ons. Thank you so much Darchstar for a great ROM !!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=684202 ( ROM LINK )
Now that we have a great (AOSP ) ROM for our Hero’s, we can start sharing themes, launchers and many other add-ons that work and have been tested on the Darchdroid v2 ROMS. Hopefully this thread will grow.
Being the first I would like to share that LauncherPro Beta ( can be downloaded from the market ) . This launcher is great and very fast .. almost 100% customizable and can be set to have up to 7 screens …
screen shots of launchpro beta at work..
Agreed on launcherpro.. I was using helixlauncher at first but launcherpro seems faster.
Anyone find any themes that play nice? I have tried 2 so far and got boot loops on both.
As for launchers I'm partial to ADW Launcher for Darch's rom. It's quick and very customizable which is the best part. Has the froyo taskbar look with 2 customizable main shortcuts and an app drawer for additional apps. Also gives the nifty swipe left to right for the main app drawer ala iphone, and the SenseUI style jump out screen preview.
My favorite feature by far though is the ability to hide the notification bar. Gives a really nice way to show off your wallpaper, especially since you can set it so the home button shows and hides it again so you can still check it.
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/category/adwlauncher/
EDIT : Also a question for everyone else.. is it possible to get the rotary lock on darchdroid? When the update comes out I'm probably gonna see if the metamorph for it will do it but I doubt it :/
Anyone check out Beautiful Live Wallpaper. Runs great on Darchdroid.
My setup....
david279 said:
Anyone check out Beautiful Live Wallpaper. Runs great on Darchdroid.
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i have it to and it does work great..onlything i noticed is that wen u launch the weather its kinda laggy for a second or so but i can live with that ..
david279 said:
My setup....
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were to get that battery widget?
rgildoss said:
were to get that battery widget?
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Its called batteryLife.
david279 said:
My setup....
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They have a weather skin called none to clear out the images on the widget so you dont always have 2 suns or 2 moons...I dont know if you really care but it irritated me having the repeating image.
How would a user go about using MetaMorph and this rom?
gomorrah said:
They have a weather skin called none to clear out the images on the widget so you dont always have 2 suns or 2 moons...I dont know if you really care but it irritated me having the repeating image.
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hmmm i tried this but still have a sun there ?
EDIT: never mind i got ..thats for the tip ..looks great !
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i have it to and it does work great..onlything i noticed is that wen u launch the weather its kinda laggy for a second or so but i can live with that ..
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Does cpu hog really hog up a lot of the battery? I'm using it and I want to know if I should uncheck that box.
CarbonKang said:
Does cpu hog really hog up a lot of the battery? I'm using it and I want to know if I should uncheck that box.
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well since the battery fix , im trying out other launchers to see what one works best ... im getting some really bad lag and i dont know if its beutifull live wall pappers or the launcherpro ...
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what launcher and skin is that please
Sporkman said:
what launcher and skin is that please
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Thats the ADW launcher with the Beautiful Weather live wallpaper.
any idea where i can get these icons ?
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/category/adwlauncher/
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Thats the ADW launcher with the Beautiful Weather live wallpaper.
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so i installed ADW and i like it ..runs very nice ..thank you for that ..
however ever since the battery update the Beautiful weather live wallpaper sucks ..very very laggy ...
I did see an update to it in the market today and did update ..wonder if the update is the lag?
anyhow i removed it for now ..
anyone been able to find a message and calander widget aside form the PURE products ? ( im not very found of PURE )
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anyone been able to find a message and calander widget aside form the PURE products ? ( im not very found of PURE )
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I dont know about a message widget but I'm fond of the pop up for hand cent.
Also I want a good calendar too and maybe a better alarm clock.
When I had my adp1 we had advanced launcher which gave me the ability to hide certain apps so they wouldn't show up in the drawer. I hate having font packs and the like appear in my app drawer. I also hate having redundant apps (desktop shortcut plus being in the app drawer)
Is there anything like advanced launcher out there for sense?
I remove the apk's from /system/apps. That will completely remove the app from your phone (so don't do it to apps you want to keep on your home screen) but seems to work well for sprint/htc's crapware.
You can hide them in LauncherPro.
TheBiles said:
You can hide them in LauncherPro.
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Ill probably get flamed for this, but I'm partial to the sense launcher. I don't much care for the aftermarket launchers. In afraid though, that I'm bit going to have a choice
TheBiles said:
You can hide them in LauncherPro.
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...are you sure about this?
If so, how do you do this? I've used lp and bought pro a couple weekday ago, I'm not aware of this feature...
nebenezer said:
...are you sure about this?
If so, how do you do this? I've used lp and bought pro a couple weekday ago, I'm not aware of this feature...
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Menu, Preferences, General Settings, Hidden Apps
Thats how I do it on LauncherPro Plus.
martijua said:
Menu, Preferences, General Settings, Hidden Apps
Thats how I do it on LauncherPro Plus.
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AWESOME! Thank you!
I swear they update LauncherPro faster than I can keep up with it..
nebenezer said:
AWESOME! Thank you!
I swear they update LauncherPro faster than I can keep up with it..
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This is a start, but I would still like to see this integrated into the sense launcher.
Dredge said:
This is a start, but I would still like to see this integrated into the sense launcher.
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Sorry for the diversion
What software were you running on your adp?
I wonder if there's anything in the engineering pc36img.zip that would help..
Advanced Launcher was Sense?
nebenezer said:
Sorry for the diversion
What software were you running on your adp?
I wonder if there's anything in the engineering pc36img.zip that would help..
Advanced Launcher was Sense?
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On my adp1 it was typically an add on that required you to flash it over your rom or theme.
Just wondering, but why do you like Rosie more than LaucherPro? Please don't say "widgets" because there are equivalent widgets in LauncherPro Plus that are idential to those by HTC, and there are a ton in the Market with identical functionality.
I honestly like the way sense looks.
Okay so i did the clockwork mod thing now i wanna change to look like the notifications and stuff .. like i see pictures and stuff people post but i wanna set it on my phone and im completly lost on how to do that ... well can someone give some direction on how to do this .?
Ashialeigh said:
Okay so i did the clockwork mod thing now i wanna change to look like the notifications and stuff .. like i see pictures and stuff people post but i wanna set it on my phone and im completly lost on how to do that ... well can someone give some direction on how to do this .?
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I'm assuming you're referring to screenshots posted of homescreens and such. Many of these are the look of the custom ROM's they have installed, others are themes they have flashed or installed.
The look of your phone is totally customizable and individual. If you are running a Custom ROM check in that thread or with others running that ROM for themes that run well with it.
If you only want stock without a custom ROM. You could start simply by long pressing on the homescreen of your phone to change wallpapers and such.
You can also try downloading a launcher from the app store such as go launcher which will give you a ton of themes and customizing options.
For ringtones notifications and such I've heard zedge is great (available in the app store) Although I've only used it for wallpapers.
Good luck.
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Hi all,
I tried searching the forums and google on this but couldn't find an answer.
I've included a picture just to give you guys a visual. (Guess I can't show you since I'm a noob)
It's the dot(s) that is an indicator when you have 1 or more home screens.
My question is - is there a way to remove the dot(s)/indicator? By way of an app or custom ROM?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi all,
I tried searching the forums and google on this but couldn't find an answer.
I've included a picture just to give you guys a visual. (Guess I can't show you since I'm a noob)
It's the dot(s) that is an indicator when you have 1 or more home screens.
My question is - is there a way to remove the dot(s)/indicator? By way of an app or custom ROM?
Thanks in advance!
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If I understand what you are saying a custom launcher like apex or nova should take care of it. They will have a bar, but you can hide it.
gtdtm said:
If I understand what you are saying a custom launcher like apex or nova should take care of it. They will have a bar, but you can hide it.
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Is it possible to hide the dots/panel indicator on a stock ROM?
snam90 said:
Is it possible to hide the dots/panel indicator on a stock ROM?
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Those will work on the stock rom, but not the stock launcher. I guess I should mention you may not be able to use touchwiz widgets with them. But to keep your launcher and rom but remove those would involve code manipulation. I'm not saying no one has done it, but I haven't stumbled upon that type of tweak.
gtdtm said:
Those will work on the stock rom, but not the stock launcher. I guess I should mention you may not be able to use touchwiz widgets with them. But to keep your launcher and rom but remove those would involve code manipulation. I'm not saying no one has done it, but I haven't stumbled upon that type of tweak.
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Thanks gtdtm!
Ah, I know, I might get killed, but is there a way to get HTC Sense StatusBar Icons (network, wlan, battery) to the N5? I liked them a lot on my HTC devices and miss them now.
http://www.cultofandroid.com/28529/top-10-icon-packs-for-nova-apex-go-launcher/
Do people really find it difficult to Google?
abtekk said:
http://www.cultofandroid.com/28529/top-10-icon-packs-for-nova-apex-go-launcher/
Do people really find it difficult to Google?
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He is talking about status bar icons, not the app icons.
Moosach said:
Ah, I know, I might get killed, but is there a way to get HTC Sense StatusBar Icons (network, wlan, battery) to the N5? I liked them a lot on my HTC devices and miss them now.
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There is a way, but it would look really weird with the other parts of stock android. All you have to do is decompile the HTC systemui.apk and the N5 apk, then swap all the status bar PNGs.
Moosach said:
Ah, I know, I might get killed, but is there a way to get HTC Sense StatusBar Icons (network, wlan, battery) to the N5? I liked them a lot on my HTC devices and miss them now.
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xposed and ex-themer module has the wifi icon if that helps at all
gravitybox has some icons too but not specific HTC ones....
Alex4utm said:
He is talking about status bar icons, not the app icons.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gekn.theme.Sense5
Again, Google.
abtekk said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gekn.theme.Sense5
Again, Google.
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Hi,
And you need a rom with Theme Chooser, maybe the OP don't want to flash a rom like CM..., for sure it will be more difficult.
viking37 said:
Hi,
And you need a rom with Theme Chooser, maybe the OP don't want to flash a rom like CM..., for sure it will be more difficult.
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But he didn't state what ROM he had. He only asked how he could get sense icons.
Hey, thanks everybody for the suggestions. I'm running stock 4.4.2 and want to stay there. Xposed and Gravity serves all my modding needs. I will have a look to ex-themer. Another launcher is no option though. My N5 runs so stable and smooth (far far better than my previous HTCs with multiple custom roms). Maybe I really should extract the icons from the UI app. Only question is what happens with scaling.
Moosach said:
Hey, thanks everybody for the suggestions. I'm running stock 4.4.2 and want to stay there. Xposed and Gravity serves all my modding needs. I will have a look to ex-themer. Another launcher is no option though. My N5 runs so stable and smooth (far far better than my previous HTCs with multiple custom roms). Maybe I really should extract the icons from the UI app. Only question is what happens with scaling.
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Nothing happens because both phones are XXHDPI. You have to get the images from the HTC One or another HTC phone with a 1080p screen. You should try it, but make a backup so if it doesn't work you don't have to flash the entire factory image.